1. Did growing up with a lack of a female role model change your view on life, gender roles, etc.?
2. How do you feel about gender roles assigned to women by society? Why do you feel this way?
3. Do you feel like being a girl changes the way people look at you?
4. What kind of treatment did you receive growing up as a young girl? In later years?
5. What differences (if any) do you notice between girls and boys in Maycomb?
6. Do you feel Jem would’ve treated you differently if you were a boy rather than a girl? If so, how and why?
7. How did you feel about women serving on the jury when you were younger?
8. When you got older and Jem started to treat you differently, how did you feel? Why do you think he did this?
9. How did your Aunt Alexandra’s opinions affect your own on gender views? What did you think of them?
10. Do you believe that gender roles have changed over the years? If so, how?
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1. I believe that Atticus taught me things that a woman might not have taught me, like cooking, cleaning, and things women stereotypically do. He was a great man and I don't believe that I needed a oman in my life, but Calpurnia was there a lot of the time so I received some feminine influece from her. At times, it would have been nice to have a mom to talk about things I typically couldn't with Atticus but I got along just fine.
2. Gender roles are outdated and should be done away with because both genders should be treated as equals, not separate. A woman is fully capable of doing things considered "masculine" and the same goes for men doing things considered "feminine."
3. Yes, people seem to view women as less capable which is extremely untrue. I am just as able to do the things that men do and I could do them just as well.
4. People tended to frown upon my behavior and the way I dressed because it wasn’t feminine; I was a tomboy through and through. As I entered early adulthood I began to see the sexsism more than I had when I was a young girl.
5. I noticed that the boys in Maycomb County were given more responsibilities and less punishment if they did something wrong. They were also viewed as more capable, stronger.
6. Yes, Jem would have treated me a lot differently if I were a boy. On many occasions he has pointed out the fact that I am scared in a certain situation because I am a girl. I think he would’ve done more activities with me, like playing football, Dill and Jem would have included me more often. He wouldn’t have distanced himself as much as he had when he turned 12 had I been a boy, in my opinion.